Re: [PATCH 0/7] [RFC] kernel: add a netlink interface to get information about processes

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 17 February 2015 11:20:19 Andrey Vagin wrote:
> task_diag is based on netlink sockets and looks like socket-diag, which
> is used to get information about sockets.
> 
> A request is described by the task_diag_pid structure:
> 
> struct task_diag_pid {
>        __u64   show_flags;      /* specify which information are required */
>        __u64   dump_stratagy;   /* specify a group of processes */
> 
>        __u32   pid;
> };

Can you explain how the interface relates to the 'taskstats' genetlink
API? Did you consider extending that interface to provide the
information you need instead of basing on the socket-diag?

	Arnd
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